Improvement in school-desks



UNITED. STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM B. GOGGER AND FRANK T. JUNE, OF MORRIS, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN SCHOOL-DESKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 189,192, dated April 3,1877; application filed March 21, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

. Be it known that we, WM. B. COGGER and FRANK T. JUNE, of Morris, inthe county of Grundy and in the State of Illinois, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in School-Desks; and do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact 'description thereof,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and tothe letters ofreference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

Our invention relates to school-desks having side pieces or frames madeof wood; and :it consists in a school-desk with sawed wood legs puttogether with or without a mortised i bracket on top, as will behereinafter more fully set forth.

' In order to enable others skilled in the art to which our inventionappertains to make and use the same, we will now proceed to describe itsconstruction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in which-Figure 1 is a transverse vertical section of a school-desk embodying ourinvention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged section of the same. Fig. 3 is a sideelevation of the upper part of the desk.

A A represent two sawed wooden legs of substantially the curvature shownin the drawing, and formed at their upper ends with tenons a a. Thesetenons are inserted in'mortises made in a bracket, B, which bracketconnects the legs and forms the support for the desk top 0. D representsa plate of wood or other suitable material secured on the outside at thetop to the legs A A and bracket B covering the space between them andforming a brace for the legs. The back, top, bookcase, and seat oftheschool-desk may be constructed in any of the known and usual ways.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A school-desk, having its sides formed of sawed-wood legs A A, connectedby a mortised bracket, B, on top, and a covering and 3 bracing plate, D,on the outside, substantially as herein set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing We have hereunto set our handsthis 19th day of February, 1876.

W. B. GOGGER. F. '11. JUNE.

Witnesses:

H. D. HOWE,

W. A. PARKER.

